Piliavin✅ Flashcards
Where was the Kitty Genovese case?
New York, 1974
Brief explanation for Kitty’s murder
- 38 bystanders
- stabbed in 3 separate attacks outside her apartment building
- early hours of morning
- ppl shouted at man to get off her
- no one called the police until kitty was dead
Aim:
Study factors as to whether ppl would help a collapsed man on the New York Subway
Diffusion of responsibility: who stated that responsibility is equally shared?
Latané and Darley at al. (1968)- series of lab experiments concluded that the more people in an emergency situation, the less people help- smoke appearing in a room
How many pps?
-4450 passengers on train
How many in each carriage?
- average of 43 in each carriage
- 45% black, 55% white
What kind of experiment?
Field
Experimenters worked in groups of what?
- groups of 4
- 2 female observers (record results)
- 2 males (victim and model helper)
How long after the train left would the man collapse?
- 70 secs
- also a 7.5 min gap between 2 stations was main target
What would the man do when he fell?
Wouldn’t move until helped
How many trials a day?
6-8
What time of day was study carried out?
Between 11-3
What was the role of the model helper?
To intervene if no one else did after a certain time
Model helpers info:
Age: 24-29
Dressed identically
Independent variables:
Drunk
ill
Black/ white (race)
How close model helper was
